The Ergonomics of Matching the Worker to the Job

We spend a lot of time in the field of ergonomics trying to fit the work to the worker.  Well, Art van Bodegraven and Kenneth B. Ackerman have a nice Op-Ed piece over a DC Velocity, The Case for "Revergonomics" , discussing improving things by doing the opposite.  That is finding a worker with the aptitudes and physical traits that will make them perform better at a given task.